FREELANCE PRESENTER

PRIME-TIME SHOWS – BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
2015 onwards

I have presented a range of shows on this network station, covering broadcasters like Adrian Chiles and Stephen Nolan, as well as co-presenting Breakfast with Nicky Campbell, Weekend Breakfast and the award-winning Drive programme. The rolling news coverage is an opportunity to tackle stories with little warning, from the Rio Olympics and to the show announcing the death of Muhammad Ali, which was praised by the national press.

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SENIOR PRESENTER/PRODUCER

BBC NEWCASTLE
2009 – 2021

I presented the Breakfast Show for almost a decade, beating all previous audience figures for this ARIA-nominated Station of the Year. Since becoming a working mother, I presented my own current affairs show which took a more in-depth and sideways look at the day’s news.

My pacey mix of news and conversation proved a winning formula, bringing in more listeners than any other local BBC station outside London.

I was very proud to represent the network at Westminster for the organisation Sound Women- which successfully rebalanced the genders presenting on UK radio. Aside from doing outside broadcasts from across England, I’ve taken the shows to the Netherlands (where I was covering the report into the MH17 plane crash) and the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

REPORTER

RADIO AND TV ACROSS BBC NETWORK
2003 onwards

My investigative pieces have helped win radio and RTS awards for the current affairs TV programme Inside Out. One of my exclusives, about a 100 year-old transplanted kidney, made international headlines experts claimed I’d uncovered a medical world-first.

I have a proven track record dating back to the early stages of the financial crisis, when my coverage of reaction to Northern Rock’s collapse featured on Newsnight and Panorama. Described as “outstanding storytelling”, “ambitious and impressive”, with “exceptional production”.